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rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem
authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:15:05 +0000 (16:15 -0500)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Mon, 2 Oct 2017 13:03:38 +0000 (16:03 +0300)
commitb8b8b16352cd90c6083033fd4487f04fae935c18
treed4ea748697f3b00a6c64b2cff94d8ab859f81873
parent3e747fa18202896b5be66b88478352d5880fb8eb
rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Fix connection lost problem

In commit 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues"), the read
of REG_DBI_READ was changed from 16 to 8 bits. For unknown reasonsi
this change results in reduced stability for the wireless connection.
This regression was located using bisection.

Fixes: 40b368af4b75 ("rtlwifi: Fix alignment issues")
Reported-and-tested-by: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.11+
Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c